Name This...(294)

[Brady]

???

[grossmetzger]

her royal highness visiting the navy-boys?

[LargeSlowTarget]

"If that is *not* a gun in your pocket - here is my phone number..."

[janushm]

marlet in the back

[grossmetzger]

is there a overpainted american star on the plane?
perhaps she is from the friendly used-plane shop round the corner

[mlees]

is there a overpainted american star on the plane?

No, I think it is a taped over Brit roundel, see the red color under the peeling tape?

[Mynok]

"oyal Navy" on the tail would tend to support that theory as well. [:D]

[mlees]

Uh, wait. I see what he was saying. Look closely at the blue section of the roundel. There is a hint of a star in the paint texture. This could be a lend lease aircraft model.

[janushm]

like i said...marlet...know to the americans as the wildcat

[panda124c]

A Lend Lease PR Photo, showing the handing over of a USN Wildcat (aka Marlet) to the Royal Navy. The Star is being peeled off to show the British Roundel.

[c00k1e]

A Royal Navy WREN Tears the U.S. "Star" circle from the fuselage of a Grumman FM-1 "Wildcat" fighter, revealing British Fleet Air Arm markings underneath, as the plane is transferred to the Royal Navy to become a "Martlet V". A U.S. Navy sailor is paying very close attention to particular aspects of the process.
The ceremony took place at Naval Air Station, Quonset Point, Rhode Island, in September 1943.
The plane bears British serial number JV-331.
Photographed by Lieutenant Charles Fenno Jacobs, USNR.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

[mlees]

like i said...marlet...know to the americans as the wildcat

I know what a Martlet was, just not a marlet...[;)]

[Brady]

Martlet V, it is:)


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cOOk1e, is of course right in the details.

[Knavey]

That squid isn't thinking of planes, or the war, or whose flag is under the paint.

That grin on his face says it all.

[Wallymanowar]

ORIGINAL: Knavey

That squid isn't thinking of planes, or the war, or whose flag is under the paint.

That grin on his face says it all.

[:D]He's thinking about peeling more than the sticker off that rondel.[:D]